Hardtalk
Summary: Interviews with the world's leading politicians, thinkers and cultural figures. In an in-depth, hard-hitting, half-hour discussion, Stephen Sackur talks to some of the most prominent people from around the world. Broadcast on the BBC World Service on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
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Podcasts:
Wadah Khanfar was the Director General of Al Jazeera Television during the Arab Spring, one of the most tumultuous periods in modern Middle Eastern history. HARDtalk's Zeinab Badawi asks him whether the network was as balanced as it claims to be?
The artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen talks to Zeinab Badawi about his new film Shame. His second feature has drawn much controversy over his portrayal of sex addiction in modern day New York. But does sex addiction really exist?
Bassma Kodmani sits on the Executive Committee of the Syrian National Council. Sarah Montague asks her is she thinks it is time for international intervention in Syria?
The Minister for Communication in the Hungarian Government explains to Zeinab Badawi why his country has made such contraversial constitutional changes.
Zeinab Badawi talks to the prominent Chinese economist Cheng Siwei. In 2011 thousands of workers went on strike in China demanding more pay and the country's growth has slowed. Zeinab Badawi asks Cheng Siwei if China's economic miracle is showing its first signs of real vulnerability.
Hardtalk is in Brussels to talk to Olli Rehn - Europe's Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs. Sarah Montague asks Olli Rehn whether Europe's leaders are any closer to resolving the crisis in the Eurozone and can the Euro survive?
On Hardtalk, Stephen Sackur speaks to a brilliant Indian heart surgeon Dr Devi Shetty - the veteran of more than 30,000 operations. He wants to make major surgery affordable for the poorest people, by means of mass production, and to do this he's building what he calls medical cities across India and beyond.
